Hi everyone! I usually just read here - but decided to join in
I recently purchased a 'vintage' Coach Lexington bag. The outside of the bag smells. It's a mystery smell. Seller claimed it came from a smoke free home, but it definitely SMELLS! It almost smells like a sweet pipe tobacco, or maybe incense, or some kind of perfumed, heady oil. Certain areas of the bag smell worse than others. I have cleaned the outside with Coach leather cleaner, twice. No luck. It did have a heavy black grime to it.
There is no leather smell at all. I have some older Coach bags from the 90's, and they all smell like leather. And I smoked back then!
Do I have a shot at getting that leather smell back - or are all my attempts to clean it futile? At this point I'll take just getting rid of that nasty smell. I tried looking for threads on it here, but I'm only seeing stuff about the older Coaches that get 'baths'.
Thanks!
I recently purchased a 'vintage' Coach Lexington bag. The outside of the bag smells. It's a mystery smell. Seller claimed it came from a smoke free home, but it definitely SMELLS! It almost smells like a sweet pipe tobacco, or maybe incense, or some kind of perfumed, heady oil. Certain areas of the bag smell worse than others. I have cleaned the outside with Coach leather cleaner, twice. No luck. It did have a heavy black grime to it.
There is no leather smell at all. I have some older Coach bags from the 90's, and they all smell like leather. And I smoked back then!
Do I have a shot at getting that leather smell back - or are all my attempts to clean it futile? At this point I'll take just getting rid of that nasty smell. I tried looking for threads on it here, but I'm only seeing stuff about the older Coaches that get 'baths'.
Thanks!